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Offline webb

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Any working non-USB audio input card?
« on: February 10, 2017, 09:41:23 PM »
Has anyone successfully set up a non-USB audio input card, e.g., Wolfson? If so, how?

Many thanks,
Webb

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 10:09:44 PM »
You can check the audio card drivers in the kernel, either kernel source, kernel config or alsa.modules-KERNEL.tcz.

Also you can check piCore based piCoreplayer for supported audio cards

https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home

Wolfsson used a messy dirty driver for an old Raspbian a while ago which was useless and was not supported in the official RPi kernel for long time. I have no idea whether it is change or not recently.

You can PM sbp one of the piCoreplayer authors here.
« Last Edit: February 10, 2017, 10:12:06 PM by bmarkus »
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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2017, 03:01:35 AM »
I just noticed that a new driver for the Wolfson card actually was merger into the official raspberry kernel a few days ago.

So when Bela build a new piCore based on the newest kernel, there should be official support for the Wolfson card.

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2017, 04:43:04 AM »
Nice! I'll be looking forward to that day ;D

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2017, 07:20:30 PM »
Maybe once. It is not in the current 4.4.48 used by Raspbian.
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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2017, 12:36:59 AM »
Looks like it's only in the rpi-4.9.y branch: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/1810

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2017, 06:00:41 AM »
They aren't spending much time on 4.4.y anymore.    All active rpi developement is in 4.9.y.  I'm a bit surprised 4.9.y is not already default.

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2017, 06:15:55 AM »
True, since a long time no new RPi features, drivers, etc. appear in 4.4.y only following upstream.

Maybe it is the time to try 4.9 for piCore 9.0
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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2017, 07:14:12 AM »
I've been following that quite a bit Bela.  They keep breaking things quite a bit still.  Quite a few of the i2s soundcard drivers have only recently been fixed so they compile.

But 4.9 is definitely on the close horizon.


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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2017, 03:56:10 PM »
If the current plan for piCore 9.0 is 4.[4-8], I would be happy to ask the dude who made the 4.9 driver http://www.horus.com/~hias/cirrus-driver.html whether he would be willing to backport.
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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2017, 02:00:11 AM »
« Last Edit: February 17, 2017, 02:06:38 AM by webb »

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2017, 04:42:37 PM »
Hi there,

Has anyone managed to get the Wolfson audio card working in piCore?

I posted some info to another thread:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17546.30.html

Thanks,
Petar

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Re: Any working non-USB audio input card?
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2017, 07:37:04 AM »
Hi Petar,
As you probably know I got the card "working"  but it does not load the driver automagically from boot.
Still working on that.   I started a thread for that in this forum.
Regards M-H